Barcelona tourist bus routes. Sightseeing tour of Barcelona by bus. Tours in Russian in Spain

There is no doubt that the Barcelona sightseeing bus tour is the best way to experience the city and all of its attractions. The carrier company "Barcelona Bus Turistic" offers to purchase 2 types of tickets - for one or two days. You can get off the bus at any minute (of course, at designated bus stops) and get back on the bus without buying a ticket again.

Routes

Barcelona Bus Turistic operates on three lines - red, blue and green(open only in summer). The green route runs through the beaches and the sea, the red line goes through the city center and focuses on the northern part of the city towards Mount Tibidabo, the blue route also runs through the center and heads towards the huge Montjuïc park.

Red route

The bus running along the red line has 23 stops, of which four intersect with the blue and green routes. During a sightseeing tour of Barcelona on this route you will see such sights of Barcelona as the station Estacio de Sants, Creu Coberta, then moves through the main entrance of the city of Plaza de España (Placa d'Espanya) to Montjuïc, a museum Mies van der Rohe pavilion (Caixa Forum-Pavello Miles Van der Rohe), a Spanish village (Poble Espanyol) where each house is built in a different typical Spanish style, the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), the spectacular Olympic ring sports facility (Anella Olimpica) , Museum - Fundacio Joan Miro - a famous Spanish avant-garde artist, along the Teleferic de Montjuic cable car, Miramar-J garden. Costa i Llobera with a huge collection of cacti, the World Trade Center office building, the Colom-Museu Maritim maritime museum. Further along the route there is the port Vell Port Vell, which occupies the entire coastal strip between the Barceloneta area and the southern foothills of Montjuy, the Museum of the History of Catalonia (Museu d'Historia de Catalunya), Port Olimpic, Playa del Bogatell, Ciutadella Park, Pla de Palau, Barri Gothic Gothic Quarter, Placa de Catalunya, Casa Batllo-Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Robert Palau Museum (Passeig) de Gracia-La Pedrera) and the trip ends at Francesc Macia-Diagonal Avenue.

Blue route

The Blue Line Bus travels around attractions such as Monestir de Pedralbes, Palau Reial-Pavellons Guell, Futbol Club Barcelona, ​​Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (-MACBA-CCCB) , Plaza Catalunya, Antonio Tapies Foundation, Casa Mila - La Pedrera, Sagrada Familia, Gracia district, Park Guell, Tramvia Blau-Tibidabo and lookout site Sarria.

The most important parts of this route are the Sagrada Familia (Barcelona's main attraction) and to some extent the Camp Nou stadium.

Green route

The green bus line operates from 1 April to 25 September and runs to places such as the city center, Olympic Port, Plata de Bogatell Cementiri de Poblenou in the Poblenou coastal area and Parc Diagonal Mar.

Honestly, you can safely skip this route, since you can see all this yourself walking along the embankment.

The open-top sightseeing bus ride through the streets of Barcelona on all three routes will take about 4-5 hours, provided that you do not get off the bus at stops. Usually tourists are limited to the blue and red routes, which show the main attractions of the city. But in Barcelona it is really worth going inside some of the objects, because inside these buildings and objects are even more interesting than outside.

Here is a list of the tour bus stops we recommend getting off to get the most out of this tour. We publish objects in order of importance.

• Sagrada Familia (Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia)
• Casa Batlló
• Park Guell
• Gothic Quarter
• Camp Nou stadium
• Mount Tibidabo (observation deck in the Temple of the Sacred Heart)

If you have an acute shortage of time, then we recommend that you start exploring the city from the red route and be sure to get to an independent tour of the Sagrada Familia (Sagrada Familia metro station on L2 and L5). Moreover, it is better to start the day with a visit to the cathedral, since there are fewer queues at the beginning of the day, and if you want not to waste time at all, buy tickets in advance.

Buying tickets

The price of tickets for a sightseeing tour of Barcelona bus is 27 € per adult for one day or 3 € for two days (adults are considered to be persons over 12 years old); and for children from 4 to 12 years old - 14 € for a one-day ticket and 18 € for a two-day ticket. Children under 3 years old are transported free of charge.

You can buy tickets for the Barcelona sightseeing bus tour at any bus stop. The central point of sale is in Plaza Catalunya. When buying tickets through the website, a 10% discount is provided.

The ticket gives you the right to get on and off the bus at any stop. The bus stops are clearly marked on the route and are located close to the city's attractions. Along with the ticket, tourists receive headphones to listen to the audio guide in Russian.

Working hours

The tourist bus operates daily except January 1st and December 25th. On the way, he is about 2 hours on the red and blue routes and 40 minutes on the green route. Buses run from 9-00 in the morning to 19-00 in the evening, and in the summer - until 20-00. The frequency of their circulation depends on the volume of tourists and ranges from 5 to 20 minutes.

In the summertime, there is a possibility to take a night sightseeing tour of Barcelona by bus (the number of seats is limited).

Keep in mind that buying tickets for a sightseeing tour with Barcelona Bus Turistic entitles you to discounts on other attractions in Barcelona - museums, galleries, cultural events, as well as other vehicles and, finally, restaurants, fast food outlets and parking lots.

The most convenient way to discover Barcelona from the most interesting and attractive sides is to travel on the Barcelona Bus Turístic tourist bus.

The City Tour, which is operated by a double-decker tourist bus in Barcelona, ​​is perhaps the fastest and most democratic way to experience the city's most important landmarks. If you have little time or money to see Barcelona, ​​or you are overtaken by these two problems at once, then Bas Turistik Barcelona is exactly what you need!

Barcelona Bus Turistic are open top double-decker buses with audio guides in 10 languages: Catalan, Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese and Russian. To select Russian, all you have to do is set your audio guide to channel 8 and insert the plug into socket B.

Tourist bus routes in Barcelona

The bus runs on three different routes that intersect with each other.

Red route

The Bass Turistik in Barcelona, ​​operating along the route marked in red, starts from the very heart of Barcelona - Plaça de Catalunya. He follows the route:

• Ciutadella park (Parc de la Ciutadella), where the city zoo of Barcelona is located;
• Boulevard Gracia (Passeig de Gracia);
• Diagonal Avenue;
• the station Estacion de Sants (Estacion de Sants), from where high-speed trains leave;
• Plaza de Espanya (Plaça d'Espanya) with the majestic National Palace.

Within the walls of the Palace is the National Art Museum of Catalonia, where masterpieces of Catalan fine and applied art are concentrated. Singing fountains can be seen nearby.

Further, the bus carrying out a city tour of Barcelona ascends the "Jewish mountain" Montjuic, on the slopes of which unique attractions are located: here is the museum of the artist Joan Miró, the Olympic Stadium, and the most beautiful Botanical Garden, which presents the climatic zones of Europe and America, as well as a rare collection of bonsai trees. At the top of the hill there is a fortress built in 1640. Its walls offer stunning views of the city and the seaport. The War Museum has been located in the fortress since the mid-1990s.

Driving along the other side of Montjuïc mountain, the tourist bus descends into the port area of ​​Port Vell. Here is the Barcelona Oceanarium - one of the largest in Europe, as well as the Maremagnum shopping and entertainment center. From Porta Vell along the Barcelona seafront, the tourist bus returns to the start of the route.

Blue route

Barcelona's Blue Tourist Route also starts from Plaça de Catalunya. The bus follows the route:

• Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA;
• Boulevard Gracia (Passeig de Gracia), where a significant part of shops and boutiques is concentrated, as well as one of the most famous creations of the great architect Antoni Gaudí - Mila Apartment House;
• Sagrada Familia Catholic Church;
• Park Guell with a mosaic lizard that has become the symbol of Catalonia;
• the foot of Tibidabo mountain, to the top of which can be reached by an old blue tram or funicular.

From the top of Tibidabo, a beautiful view of the entire city opens. There is a TV tower, an amusement park and the Museum of Mechanical Toys. At the top is the Temple of the Sacred Heart, crowned with a statue of Christ, opening his arms to the world. The next stop for the tourist bus is the Pedralbes Monastery, founded in 1326 by Elisenda de Moncada, the last wife of King Jaume II.

Further, crossing the center of Barcelona, ​​the tourist bus route passes through the Camp Nou football stadium (El Estadio del Fútbol Club Barcelona). This is the largest football stadium in Europe, with a capacity of 100 thousand spectators. Here you can visit the FC Barcelona Museum, buy tickets for the match and all kinds of paraphernalia.

Green route

The green route Bass Turistik of Barcelona starts from the Olympic Port (Port Olimpic) with the Twin Towers and the sculpture of the Goldfish. The port was built specifically for the 1992 Olympics. Then the bus follows the route:

• Poblenou area - one of the quietest and most comfortable quarters of the city with clean, uncrowded beaches and modern parks;
• Forum Park;
• Blau Museum of Natural Sciences;
• beaches of Barcelona.

The main advantage of using any tourist bus in Barcelona is that it can be used to travel around the city multiple times. A ticket purchased for 1–2 days is reusable and is valid on all three routes.

You can get off at stops near Barcelona's tourist attractions and then change to another bus to continue the Barcelona City Tour. But there is one caveat: if you bought a ticket for 2 days, then it will not be valid for two days, as many think, namely 2 days.

All the stops through which the Barcelona tourist bus routes pass are marked with special signs.

At almost all stops there is a Barcelona Bus Turístic consultant who, if necessary, will advise where you can change to another route or which route to take to see a particular attraction.

Where to buy Barcelona tourist bus tickets?

Pros and cons of Bus Turistic and City Tour. Attractions on the Bus Turistic and City Tour route. Ticket prices

Barcelona is the second most populous city in Spain and the main tourist center of the country. Of course, no one disputes that excursions with a professional guide, which the city can give you very individually, is the best solution.

But if this is your first time in Barcelona or if your funds are limited, there is still a good option - bus excursions on sightseeing tourist buses.

To see Barcelona in all its glory and in its most concise lines, it is best to purchase a 1-day or 2-day bus tour. Cost - from 27 euros.

An additional advantage of such a tour is its dynamism, which, together with an unusual vehicle, will not allow young travelers to get bored.

In addition, the trip will give you the opportunity to look around and decide where you can go with your child in your free time. Great options for families with children can be found here:

In Barcelona, ​​the two main bus and sightseeing competitors, the City Tour and Barcelona Bus Turistic companies, peacefully coexist.

Tickets and Schedule:

Today, tickets for these two excursion tours can be purchased at points of sale at the main bus stops, on the Internet or directly from the driver. It is good to know that in addition to your ticket you will receive a discount coupon book that can be applied at more than 180 of Barcelona's most famous destinations.

Ticket prices:

• An adult ticket costs 26 euros, and for a two-day tour - 34 euros;
• The excursion is free for children under 4 years old;
• The ticket price for children from 4 to 12 years old is 15 euros for one day and 19 euros for two days.

It should be noted that the purchase of a two-day excursion, a ticket is much cheaper.

The main similarity of the two tours - Bus Turistic and City Tour - is the ability to get off the bus at any time, change to another and change your route. The cost of the excursion does not change from this. Bus tours operate daily from 9:00 to 20:00 in summer, and from 9:00 to 19:00 in winter.

Pros and cons of Bus Turistic and City Tour:

• Excursion of the company Barcelona City Tour includes visits to the most famous places, Barcelona Bus Turistik offers a sightseeing tour.
• City Tour buses are more comfortable;
• Bas Turistik offers its tourists a greater number of route lines, as well as tourist buses.

The tourist route of the Bus Turistic buses is divided into three lines. One line works only from April to October, the other two are all year round.

On this route, you can visit the following attractions:

• Blue Line: FC Barcelona Stadium, Mount Tibidabo and Sagrada Familia.
• Red Line: where the fortress of the same name is located, the port area, the monument to H. Columbus, which is 60 meters high, the Olympic Stadium and the National Palace;
• Green Line: beaches and new areas of Barcelona.

City Tour buses provide only two routes. You can see the following sights on them:

• Green Line: Agbar Tower, Museum of the History of Catalonia, Mount Tibidabo, Sagrada Familia and Park Guell, La Pedrera's houses, etc.
• Orange Line: Spanish Village, Barcelona Harbor, FC Barcelona Stadium, Casa Batlló and La Pedrera Building;

On both routes, headphones and a map are given; the tour can be listened to in Russian.

Tourist bus in Barcelona- a convenient means of exploring the city and moving between its main attractions, quite widely "scattered" around the neighborhood.
Therefore, if you do not have much time to explore the city, then it is definitely worth using them.

The basic rules for using double-decker tourist buses in Barcelona are the same as in other cities (and other cities), so we will remind them only briefly:
- tickets can be purchased both online in advance and from the driver (or conductor) at any stop,
- you can enter and exit at any stop,
- tickets are for 1 or 2 days, you must show them at the entrance to the bus.

If you are traveling with your baby in a folding stroller, you can still use this bus. Of course, it will be difficult for you to climb to the upper floor, but on the lower floor, your excursion will turn out to be comfortable and not tiring.

Now a feature that is exactly in Barcelona.
Perhaps the main one is the undoubted popularity of this method of exploring the city, and as a result - long lines at stops, especially near popular tourist sites. There will be more lines than you have seen in other European cities, especially on weekends. To somehow make your life easier, we recommend using the following information.

In Barcelona 2 main companies that own the tourist sightseeing buses: Barcelona Bus Turistic and Barcelona City Tour.
In terms of "interest", the bus routes are comparable - they both pass by all the most famous sights of Barcelona.

The difference is that Barcelona Bus Turistic buses run more often (and the name Bas Turistic is familiar to many in other cities), so tourists prefer them. But the queues for them can be significantly longer.
Therefore, when buying a ticket for the first time, do not confuse - what kind of tourist bus you are buying it for.

Barcelona Bus Turistic

Blue buses
Official site http://www.barcelonabusturistic.cat/web/guest/home

There are 3 main routes, we will indicate the most interesting sights on each of them:
Red... Plaza Catalunya, (blue tram stop),
Blue... Plaza Catalunya, Plaza de España, Montjuïc funicular, port, Museum of the History of Catalonia, Barri Gothic area.
Green... The route is interesting in the summer, as it goes to new areas of Barcelona, ​​towards the beaches.

Here is a route map. To download it to your computer, click on it to enlarge, and then right-click on the large picture and select "Save as ..."

Ticket prices (at the time of this writing):
Adult: 1 day - 26 euros, 2 days in a row - 34 euros.
Children 4-12 years old: 1 day - 15 euros, 2 days in a row - 19 euros.

Tickets can also be purchased online, saving 10%.
But often it is better not to do this, but to buy on the spot, because you will have to exchange the printouts you have for tickets only at the ticket offices (which are far from all stops, in this case it is worth taking a bus for the first time in Plaza Catalunya, where cash desk is guaranteed). Otherwise, it may turn out that you will save a few euros and lose valuable time.

You will receive a discount booklet with your ticket, which includes most of Barcelona's tourist destinations.

From practice. If you have a ticket for the Bas Turistik and want to board it in the area of ​​Plaza Catalunya (where there are always huge queues), then it is better to walk to its previous stop, there are a lot of people on it, and then you are guaranteed to take good seats.

Barcelona City Tour

Red buses
Official site
2 main routes:
Orange... Plaza Catalunya, Barri Gothic, Port,

Sightseeing buses will help you quickly get to know Barcelona and discover all its attractions. Comfortable double-decker buses take tourists to the most interesting places in the capital of Catalonia, while saving time and not needing to spend money like on regular excursions. The upper platform of the buses is open, from which you can comfortably explore the city and its surroundings, which are narrated by audio guides in 16 languages.

Barcelona city tour

A sightseeing tour on this bus is ideal for many tourists, but it is especially important for certain categories:

• first-time visitor to Barcelona... All routes are optimally laid out so that a person can just sit down and enjoy the views of the most impressive and significant sights of the city. If during the excursion you really liked some place, then you can stay in it and study in more detail, and then sit down on the next one, along the same route;
• aged people... It is very convenient for the elderly to travel around the city, the stairs in the bus to the second floor are narrow and not everyone can overcome it, given this, you can stay on the first floor and it is convenient to view landscapes and ancient buildings from the window. The bus ride excludes the long transitions from one station to another, which are the case when choosing a metro;
• families with small children... For young travelers, the Barcelona city tour provides discounts, the cost of their ticket is lower than the travel card for an adult. It will be problematic to lift a stroller with a child to the second floor of the bus, and a special observation deck is provided for them and disabled strollers on the first floor;
• disabled people... Tourists who, due to poor health, move poorly, can go up to the tourist with the help of the lift and sit comfortably on the site designated for them.

You can order a ticket online on the website.

Some tourists first resort to bus excursions to find out the location of interesting places in Barcelona, ​​and then return to them on their own.

Barcelona bus touristic

Barcelona Bus Tours operate in three directions, allowing you to explore the southern part of the city, the northern and the Fórum area. In total, there are 42 stops near the largest attractions, these can be monuments, basilicas, museums and other equally memorable architectural structures. All three routes intersect with each other, on the map they are marked in red, blue and green, indicating the stops at each of them.

Red route

Buses on it start from the central part of the city -. Their course lies through:

• city ​​zoo;
• Boulevard Gracia;
• Diagonal Avenue;
• Estacion de Sants station (high-speed trains run from it);
• , on which the National Palace is installed, and it houses the National Museum of Art;
• (known as Jewish), on the slopes of which there are many attractions. Among them are the Joan Miró Museum, the Botanical Gardens, the Olympic Stadium and the fortress, erected in 1640. If you visit this fortress, then beautiful views of the city itself will open from its walls;
• the Port Vell quarter, located on the opposite side of the mountain, where the Barcelona Aquarium and the Maremagnum entertainment complex were built.

After such a long journey, the bus returns to the center again at its starting point.

Green route

Tourist buses in Barcelona start from the Olympic Port. This port was built specifically for the Olympics held in Spain in 1992, it is decorated with two twin towers. Having accepted everyone on board, the bus passes and stops at the following places:

• the Poblenou quarter, it attracts with its modern parks, clean beaches, which have enough space for all holidaymakers;
• Park Forum (Parc del Forum). Most of it is concreted, among which there are single lawns and plantings, but it is interesting for its futuristic forms;
• Science Museum - Blau;
• the most beautiful beaches of Barcelona.

Blue route

This Bass Tourist line starts from Plaça Catalunya and covers attractions such as:

• "MACBA";
• Boulevard Gracia. Many excellent shops and shopping centers are concentrated on it, as well as an architectural structure - "Apartment House Mila";
• Catholic church "Sagrada Familia". It is still being rebuilt, the bus goes around this church from all sides;
• Park Guell, which houses the symbol of Catalonia in the form of a mosaic lizard. The famous Antonio Gaudi worked on its creation;
• Mount Tibidabo, to the top of which a funicular or an old tram can lead;
• football stadium . This building is a delight for football fans, if you are not lucky enough to get tickets for the match, you can get acquainted with the football museum and the stadium. It is designed for 100 thousand spectators and is still the largest in all of Europe.

What is the convenience of a tourist bus?

Having bought a ticket for two days once, you can use it on any Barcelona bus touristic route, and more than once during this time. At all stops provided for the tour, there is a consultant who can tell you where to change to another bus or which side to approach the sightseeing in order to get an interesting photo.

Riding a bus around the city is not burdensome, you can get off at any stop you like and stay longer to look at the attraction. The stops are frequent, so don't worry for those suffering from motion sickness.

A device with an audio guide is installed in front of each soft seat, free headphones and a map are attached to it, by the way, there is an electronic guide in Russian.

Sightseeing bus timetables and tickets

The Barcelona City Tour ticket can be purchased for 24 or 48 hours. The approximate cost of a one-day pass is 30 euros, while a two-day pass costs only 10 euros more. For children, tickets cost 16 and 21 euros, respectively. If the child is not yet 4 years old, then it is transported on the sightseeing bus free of charge.

Sightseeing bus passes can be purchased at any tourist branch or information office, and they are also available at the service point in the metro. If you use the latter method, then you should know that such points are available at the following stations:

• Diagonal;
• Sagrada Familia;
• Universitat;
• Sagrada Familia.

By purchasing a ticket for an excursion city tour, you can get discounts on visiting architectural monuments and museums on any route, or use an auction offer. An opportunity is provided to save on the cost of visiting the attraction you like from 10 to 20%.

The Barcelona bus touristic buses start departing on excursions from 9 am. They run around the city all year round, only in winter (November – March) the last of them departs at 19:30, and in warmer months, at 20:00. According to the schedule, they should move at intervals of 5-25 minutes, but sometimes they are late.

Choosing a bus tour in Barcelona, ​​you can relax and just enjoy the unsurpassed landscapes, without thinking about exhausting transfers and walking in unfamiliar places.